www.huffingtonpost.it // june 2013
“In a scenario of strong contraction of the demand for energy, the new system of balancing introduced by the authorities in December 2011 has contributed -along with other regulatory interventions and recent European rules on transport capacity allocation and congestion management- to lowering the spread in the rest of Europe”. The spread which the energy authority has spoken about is the one that reflects the difference between the price of gas in Italy and across the borders. In recent months the differential has fallen dramatically, until becoming inverted: recently our wholesale price has often been lower than average European prices. The authority, for its part, has implemented a series of measures to reflect this reality in detail, which we have seen in our bills.